Using sprites from a tileset

[Robin]

Thanks Robin for explaining that, will that dot trick work on images too because I started adding loads of sprites and the folder is getting filled by images

No, that is just to remain compatible with modules. For images, you need to give the full relative path.

and a new problem, I found a tricky way for making a main - by re-moving (not remove) the images, I took them to very far away off the screen and screen gets cleared

You can also just not draw them.

But after I press S, screen clears supposedly but after I press Q, it quits the game even I set onMainMenu to false in S

That's because you set onMainMenu to true every time a key is pressed. You need to keep track of the state and use that.

[Evrim]

Thanks Robin for explaining that, will that dot trick work on images too because I started adding loads of sprites and the folder is getting filled by images

No, that is just to remain compatible with modules. For images, you need to give the full relative path.

Example?

and a new problem, I found a tricky way for making a main - by re-moving (not remove) the images, I took them to very far away off the screen and screen gets cleared

You can also just not draw them.

How not draw them?

But after I press S, screen clears supposedly but after I press Q, it quits the game even I set onMainMenu to false in S

That's because you set onMainMenu to true every time a key is pressed. You need to keep track of the state and use that.

Okay

[Robin]

No, that is just to remain compatible with modules. For images, you need to give the full relative path.

Example?

If you have an image of a tree in "images/tree.png", use:

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love.graphics.newImage("images/tree.png")

You can also just not draw them.

How not draw them?

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function love.draw()
    if state == 'menu' then -- or however you keep track of state
        -- draw menu things
    else
        -- draw game things
    end
end

[Evrim]

In case state changes, will draw entities will disappear?

EDIT: Yes they do, thanks for the help again

[Robin]

In case state changes, will draw entities will disappear?

Jup.

LÖVE doesn't have entities, actually. All love.graphics.draw does is copy the pixels from the image to the screen, and the screen is cleared between frames. (Actually there is more to it than that, but I think this explains it well enough.)

[Evrim]

Now, I included another lua file for movement but it 'expects' user data

draw

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love.graphics.drawq(dwarves, char, x1, y1)

load

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char = love.graphics.newQuad(0, 0, 24, 24, 360, 24)
dwarves = love.graphics.newImage("dwarves.png")

[Robin]

Could you make a .love of your game so we can take a look at it? We need more information to be able to help you.

[Evrim]

http://ul.to/wphqziif

Hoping that I uploaded correctly

[Robin]

1. Please upload .loves as attachments next time, it's easier for all of us.
2. Ditch onMainMenu. You already have state.
3. You need to require movement.lua if you want LÖVE to use it.

[Evrim]

I was to say that problem was caused after I require movement


EDIT: Fixed it, I just took newImage and newQuad to love.draw...